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    lUK BAPTIST CONGREGATION AT ? STOfe E V A ^ 0 C Afc B < tTD < ttE . After Mr . Hu * iey ^ -de ^ rtttre , Mr ; Throgmbrtbn '^ htl Mr" Bk & s wefe eaH * didates ' fbr the pistora ) bffic ^ ,- * te T ** FtfT % related . The gi-eate * ' but fbbre * p * rt were for fusing-Mr . jykvte : The fewer and rixrher * were for ; Mf . Throgmorton- The matterFbfr a while was mat

    corriprbmised by ato ^ rteraffrt ^ one should preacftm the h ^ oiTimg ^ he other in the afternoon . "But on'March 26 th , 17 ^ 1 , Mr . Thro ^ hro rtoiTV ad herent s forgetting for a moment the principles « f tltitfr dioSent , by a con tabfe reftised the pulpit to "Mr Davis , -who therefore with 100 members separated from them ,

    andofoM 6 ttday , ~ Ma rcl * i , jth , tjzi , hired a ^ table aitd granary in St . Andrew ' s parish-, * catted * &»«<• f ^' ofMr . Halstead for twelve years , fitted it up and oil April 16 ^ 1 , tjii i Mr . Davis first preached there . '^ Onefcuridred members ofth % late Mr . Hussey * 9 chttrch being

    thfcV separated from : tbeif ^ bretKren , formed tfeemsefv ^ s ^ into a cbngregatioiia ! chprch , renewed covenant , received Mr . Davis ^ rnt » th «> / dfo ^ ship by a ; letter of d ^ ntission front the church at'Hl g ham JJerr « rr > an ^^ In July , 17 ^ x 5 -Mr . l ) avis ii ^ settle d ^ iri the pastbriP office " among was

    the ^ . Wkf . IBzVis i mirtis ^ tY acceptable Sdtisefal , the cRurcli iricreastttg pyigi , ' metiiisers , and ^ very tlVingappe ^ ed Vcll ^ til ! July , \ ' 7 £$% When ^ n lin - J & ffly afi ^ ir broirtl thn neW chrarch into two parts- ' Several ' steps'i were taken to prevent trfU bat alFhieffecttfal ; the major y art vbtfedbirh out of his dfficd , and dented him access to the Lo d * s Sapper ^ ith thfena i butt at the ° f ame time a * greed

    to allow Iirim toL on cbndition of hi 3 removing before CKHstmas . Eighty eigjit members ( f & t't ^ mtfi ari d forty- ' eigtit \< r 6 rtten ) Sj ^ ere- 'loir Mr . David ' s exclusion . Fttrty-f ^ iir « ther ^ , ( thirteen

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    men and thirty-one w ^ onien ) were for resfb ^ ag *?& contin- « nigrrhtm . The fo ^ y-ftftjr mtnibers that w « i » e for Mr . Davis' ^ > arated from the di ii ^ tli , fitted up d pltke ofvwjSrshi ^ at Bd rn * ivtll , and December ist , Mr . iWvis preachedthere

    for tliefir % t tim ^ r . TOeehHfch ^ ^^ fyW ^ onsisting <> f e i ^ ity- ' ^ ight members ^ proceeded to chase a-rMm ^' j and the Baptist , who were % p wajpd s of fifty , jjroposW a Bapti ^ minister ; and for the fattire astriot

    comtriiirnDn . This , as may well be imagined , was disputed with great warmth The Baptists frad the majority , and so their vote w * s respectable . But not content with a moderate use of their

    power , by chusing a Baptist tffilnis & sr , they certainty carried their authority too far , by voting a strict commtmion for the future , and thereby obliging their Paedobaptist members to refuse people hereafter of their own sentiments .

    While these disputes Were agitating , the church was supplied by neighbouring ministers : at length the Baptists , unwilling to separate and thereby risk the ruin of both ; or peifiaps seeing the unreasonableness of imposing * a minister

    and form of discipline on their brethren , took the resolution of not acting at all , and left the government of the church to the Paedoba ^ rr 9 t « , the minor part , that is , to thirty-three members ( sixteen meh and seventeen -women , ) ThJese on July 15 , 1725 , settled for their pas tor * Mr . SewelL who was an old man . and had

    hi *> ministry been acceptable , the Baptists would have contentedly sat under it ; but they disked bis preaching , and having never chosen him , they withdrew the year after his ordination , hired a building , called Millar ' s barn , in St-Andrcws , fitted it up in the spring of the year 1726 , licensed iifcf April 8 th t and on April 16 th , Mr . ^ ohri Ruethorn ,

    * St . Andrew ^ js ^ jreet takes tts name from the church at the tipper end , near which church 1 ' ^ top d one of ' ^ le ' town gates , galled Barmvell Oate , tKb ' whole street Fron ^ tjfeat ^ atc ' towards thre country was ! h thtf suburb * . ft'was fottitcTlf called Pre ^ cKers -street , ftofri a coriveht df'black ^ r ^ cn iti ^ fHarW ^ itliatfed w ^ ere Ghrisfs itJofleire now stiWs . '' The old ciotiVent held the > hort ^ ut ^ ble nartie 6 f ftdrntis Dei , Qqd s Ji . gqse .. , ¦ . \ t Tfie Act of 'fcjleration illo ' ws . tWNoiicatitdrmists to pcrforAi tnKblt 6- " -dWine worship' ia wy ' " filice . ir 6 ^ i ^ d ttley fcWdfV sttch a ^ place to the Bvtohpo f the Diocese , or tp tii ^ rcnSeaiofl of ^ tMdti ^ o tit ?^ W-the « ]*« # && of ' the Veaice at the ^ n ^ V oV % ar * tyf ^ se ^ ioifs . ^ Tl tht / efertMieatfe ^ -df th W ^ % stant DiVsenters ; in f ^ nibYi ^ s ^ eVV ^ e cUtYttd y r td " the' Bi ^ Vofnc ^ Ml ttic year , i ;^ w ^ en ftr ; * ffl ^ iil \ tt£ \\ ffl Wct *^ * if Ifcbre . Tl \ c reason he assigned was , that the Methodists had ^ roturt < f > tOair . * ffldt ^ -vcral

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    Protestant Dissfntwg Churches in Cambridgeshire . 6 27

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 627, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1708/page/7/